marbles
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The simulations track how gas in the plumes behaves on very small scales, where individual particles move, collide, and transfer energy in a way similar to marbles bouncing into one another.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025
The book was clearly fiction — featuring characters such as an absurdly monastic Bolivian radio-novela writer who loses his marbles and begins to confuse his characters and his plots.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
You must sort these marbles by color within the test tubes.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2024
One of them looked to be clutching several glass marbles in his hand.
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024
They looked like soft marbles, pink shooters striated with red, inside of which an orange/yellow liquid gleamed and threatened to ooze out if the outer membrane broke.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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